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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 18h ago
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Happy birthday to trailblazing programmer & computer scientist, Beatrice “Trixie” Worsley (1921-1972). My #linocut shows Worsley seated at the first computer in Canada, the FERUT (which she named) & a flow diagram of one of her programs.⁠ ⁠ Trixie Worsley earned one of the first doctorates in computer science anywhere, & was supervised by Douglas Hartree and Alan Turing at Cambridge. Amongst the first computer scientists in 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/595780026 #WomenInSTEM #printmaking #sciart #histsci
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 1d ago
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Happy birthday to Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992! She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, formed and runs her own company researching the application of technology 🧵 ⁠ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/190530111 #linocut #printmaking #sciArt #astronaut #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histsci
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 5d ago
RE: https://spore.social/@minouette/117405229851777880 #AdaLovelaceDay #ald26 #womenInSTEM
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For Day 8 #spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge prompt supernova: Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the supernova she observed as Tycho’s assistant. 🧵1/ #womenInSTEm #histsci sciart https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1855052501
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 1w ago
For Day 8 #spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge prompt supernova: Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the supernova she observed as Tycho’s assistant. 🧵1/ #womenInSTEm #histsci sciart https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1855052501
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 6d ago
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Day 12 #spacetober_challenge is Roman Space Telescope so I made a portrait of its namesake #astronomer Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA's 1st chief of astronomy throughout the 60s & 70s, who helped shape the space astronomy program. Nicknamed "mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope, she was active in science communication & an advocate for #womenInSTEM throughout her career. 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4586474964 #linocut #printmaking #sciart #histsci
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 1w ago
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For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt crew or cargo spacecraft, my portrait of mathematician, aeronautical engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ ⁠ Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/634592877 #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #linocut #mastoArt
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 1w ago
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 Over two decades at MIT, Hamilton forged new paths in computer science and engineering. Her groundbreaking work included leading the team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon. https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007 #womeninstem
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 3w ago
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Day 23 #SciArtSeptember prompt is copper so I am sharing my #linocut of the first woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). I’ve shown her surrounded by the sort of state-of-the-art instrumentation she would have used in her lab to investigate electricity: an electrical machine, conductors, an aurora flask, a 🧵 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4436745646 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics
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STEAM Powered @steampoweredshow@c.im
· 1mo ago
Renae recalls the phrase "systematic wonder", the best framework humans have developed to make sense of reality. You're convening with reality, working with the best version of it you have, knowing you can update that understanding as you go. The rigour, the peer review, the process is all in service of that. Frame it as wonder and the process is one you can explore, revel, and delight in, too. https://podbite.link/bites/QgM6mpfL Watch or listen to the full episode: https://steampoweredshow.com/shows/renae-sayers Transcript available. #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #Science The quote "systematic wonder" comes from A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon.
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 1mo ago
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In 1925, 24-year-old graduate student Cecilia Payne calculated that the Sun and other stars were composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium—a result so contrary to accepted astronomy that senior astronomer Henry Norris Russell called it “clearly impossible,”.... By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown https://spacedaily.com/t-cecilia-payne-russell-hydrogen-helium-companion/ Stellar atmospheres at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73996 #books #astrophysics #Womeninstem
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 2mo ago
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Happy birthday to #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ ⁠ Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls. 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/634592877 #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #Indigineer #SpaceRace #planetaryScience #linocut #mastoArt
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 2mo ago
Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs and parallel computing. She was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 and as an emeritus fellow afterwards. She was the first woman to win the Turing Prize. 🧵1/ https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1086564033 #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histSTM #computing #mathematician #sciart #compsci
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 2mo ago
Happy birthday to #geologist & oceanographic #cartographer Marie Tharp (1920-2006), whose pioneering, thorough & complete ocean floor maps with Bruce Heezen, made using realms of echo sounder data, revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.⁠ ⁠ After studying #geology & math, Maurice ‘Doc’ Ewing at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia hired her to draft 1000s of echo sounder profiles. 🧵1/5 https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/217247292 #sciart #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish? Jennifer Rubin Grandis on Confronting Systemic Bias in Academic Publishing https://lithub.com/what-barriers-do-women-in-science-face-when-trying-to-publish/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KYHP2V3AGZV51X2JZCJ12Z8A&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER Books in Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706 #books #WomenInStem
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I went to high school and college at the height of the women’s liberation movement, in the 1970s. We knew that sexism was a problem—but we were solving it. My father, the center of our household, e…

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Assn for Computing Machinery @ACM@mastodon.acm.org
· 2mo ago
Congratulations to Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science at the U.K.’s University of Southampton, on winning the prestigious Sir Frank Whittle Medal! 🏆 Former ACM President & current ACM Publications Board Co-Chair, she continues to advocate for safety, diversity, and societal impact in tech. 💡 Look out for her new book, AI Explained, coming out this September! 📚 https://cacm.acm.org/news/dame-wendy-hall-receives-sir-frank-whittle-medal/#WomenInSTEM #AI #ComputerScience #TechNews
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Dame Wendy Hall Receives Sir Frank Whittle Medal – Communications of the ACM

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David Batz(DavBatz) @davbatz@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
Good Morning! It is Wednesday July 22. In 1915, Begum Shaista Ikramullah was born. She was a Bengali Pakistani politician from Bengal, diplomat and author. She was the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London. She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM
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Ele Willoughby, PhD @minouette@spore.social
· 2mo ago
Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray #crystallographer whose x-ray diffraction images were instrumental to discovering double-helix structure of #DNA, made important contributions to #carbon & #virus research, was 1 of the great scientists of the 20th century.⁠ ⁠ Watson’s bio lead some to (inaccurately) joke, “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.” While it’s important 🧵1/ #linocut #printmaking #WomenInSTEM #histsci #mastoArt #sciart⁠
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